Modelling quasicrystals at positive temperature

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9896-9MaRDI QIDQ963283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Koch, Charles Radin

Publication date 19 April 2010

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5379

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlophase transitiontorusWang tilesFibonacci sequencetemperaturequasicrystalorder parameteraperiodiclong range orderAmmann tilingnonperiodic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23)

Abstract: We consider a two-dimensional lattice model of equilibrium statistical mechanics, using nearest neighbor interactions based on the matching conditions for an aperiodic set of 16 Wang tiles. This model has uncountably many ground state configurations, all of which are nonperiodic. The question addressed in this paper is whether nonperiodicity persists at low but positive temperature. We present arguments, mostly numerical, that this is indeed the case. In particular, we define an appropriate order parameter, prove that it is identically zero at high temperatures, and show by Monte Carlo simulation that it is nonzero at low temperatures.

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